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Seminar "Hereditary Eye Diseases in Dogs"

On 22.09.2012 a seminar on eye diseases in dogs from veterinary and genetic point of view took place in Embsen (Oerzen). Invited were breeders, veterinarians and everybody interested in breeding.

Speakers at the event were Prof. Dr. Distl (Director of the Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover) and Ulrike Koch (specialist vet ophthalmology).

That evening Barbara Bruns and Wolfgang Stamp started their cooperation with Prof. Dr. Distl and the commitment of the COSMO-Art & Science Foundation for research on eye diseases in dogs.

Topics of the evening were:

1. General Overview of hereditary eye diseases (meaning, origin, investigations) 2. Special eye diseases such as cataracts, PRA and couplets